France to give vitamins to beluga stranded in river
French authorities were on Saturday preparing to give vitamins to a beluga whale that has swum way up the Seine river, as they race to save the malnourished creature, which has so far refused food. The visibly underweight whale was on Tuesday first spotted in the river that flows through Paris to the English Channel. On Saturday, it had made its way to about 70km north of the French capital. “It’s quite emaciated and seems to be having trouble eating,” Isabelle Dorliat-Pouzet, a senior police official from the Eure department in Normandy, which is overseeing the rescue operation, told j...